AuthorTopic: [LILO, UBUNTU] (Read 5225 times)

I can see why linux isn't exactly for the average person, I have to do things manually, and every time I do I ruin my computer.

I was just trying to get LILO, I'm used to the easy, noob friendly, automatically configuring GRUB, to notice my UBUNTU partition.

Then it asked me about some hda or sda, What?!

Pressed some random options, clicked randomly here and there, and now I'm afraid I nuked my LILO setup, on the positive side it noticed some DOS partition, how? I don't know, I only have linux installed/

hda == IDE primary masterhdb == IDE primary slavehdc == IDE secondary masterhdd == IDE secondary slaveYou may see hde and so on if you have additional IDE controllers or set SATA to IDE mode

sda, sdb, sdc and so on are SATA and USB devices. Also some SCSI devices can get name like this, but more often (like optical drives on JMicron IDE controller on latest Intel motherboards) they are sr0, sr1..If you have two SATA drives (one on 0 port and one on 2 port) and USB Flash, then 0 will be sda, 2 will be sdb and flash will be sdc.

Kinda complicated, but searching under Windows, which letter was assigned to your previously E: drive or which from five CD/DVDs is belonging to Alcohol is much more fun